A woman pulled into her driveway and spotted something big inside her garage. That something turned out to be a bull. And an angry bull at that. Mabel Washburn says she drove to a nearby relative's home in rural Washington County to call police after coming face to face with the bull on Wednesday afternoon. When she returned to her home near the Vermont border a few minutes later, the bull was still there. The 81-year-old woman says the animal then rammed its horns into her Ford Escort a couple of times. She blew her horn at it, but the bull chased the vehicle as she drove away. She says the bull, which had gotten loose from a nearby pasture, eventually wandered into a swamp.... http://abcnews.go.com

Parts of the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus -- which includes the world's earliest complete New Testament -- are scattered between Leipzig, London and St. Petersburg. Now researchers want to digitize the fragments and publish the whole volume on the Internet. But controversy still rages over the proper ownership of the relic. In 1844, Constantin von Tischendorf, a scholar from the German city of Leipzig, traveled by camel from Cairo through the Sinai Desert. His arduous 13-day journey took him past "fresh tiger tracks" and through sandstorms. He was weakened by foul water "that affects the lower abdomen," plagued by ants and mosquitoes, and on one occasion his tent was simply blown away. In May of that year, his caravan reached a steep range of granite hills where God -- according to Exodus -- appeared to Moses as a burning bush. The spot was marked by a spiritual fortress shaded by cypress, pomegranate and olive trees: St. Catherine's Monastery, built in 550 AD. ...http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,479791,00.html

The Somali government has declared victory over its rivals, but the most extreme elements of the Islamic insurgency remain intact, with fresh recruits and new funding, and they intend to turn the country into a haven for al Qaeda. More than 1,400 people have been killed in the last month, 400 of them in the last five days, in violence caused at least in part by the militants. The government, supported by Ethiopian troops, declared victory on Thursday, but the extremists appear to be infiltrating towns across the country. Mogadishu saw a lull in fighting Friday, but the government has declared victory before, only to have the insurgents reappear weeks later. At stake is the most strategically located nation in the Horn of Africa; a lawless country that is a crossroads between the Middle East and Africa and dominates important sea lanes. A U.N.-supported government has tried to exert control, but has influence over only a tiny part of the territory. ...http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/27/world/main2735027.shtml?source=RSSattr=World_2735027

Japan's prime minister issued an apology Friday to women who were forced to serve as "comfort women" in military brothels during World War II. "I do have deep-hearted sympathies that [the] people who had to served as comfort women and were placed in extreme hardships," Prime Minster Shinzu Abe told reporters at a press conference with President Bush at Camp David. "The 20th century was a century where many human rights were violated in many parts of the world so we have to make the 21st century a century where human rights aren’t violated," Abe said. President Bush accepted Abe's apology and said it was time to move forward from the issue. "The comfort women issue is a regrettable chapter and I accept the prime minister’s apology… He told me what was on his heart on the issue and I appreciate his candor," Bush said. "And our jobs are to learn lessons from the past and lead our nations forward." Earlier Friday, Japan's top court upheld a ruling denying compensation to ...http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268959,00.html

The wounded rarely scream. Sometimes they moan, or shake, or want to hold your hand, or call for their mothers. Sometimes they are angry, sometimes scared. But for all of them, the overhead roar of a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter with its large red cross underneath means that they just might survive. "You try to reassure them the whole time," said Sgt. Christopher Orange, a flight medic who during 20 months in Iraq has picked up dozens of seriously hurt soldiers -- some missing arms and legs -- as well as Iraqi victims of brutal torture. "The arrival of the Hawk means they know they are getting out," said Sgt. Orange, who acknowledges that he is tired. "Every time we launch a mission, we see the bad part of the war. It's an [operational] tempo that wears you down." Flight medics, pilots and crew chiefs know the chances of saving a wounded soldier are best if he receives medical attention within a crucial "golden hour" -- or maybe 90 minutes -- after being injured. ...http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20070426-112332-4831r.htm

The Senate's No. 2 Democrat says he knew that the American public was being misled into the Iraq war but remained silent because he was sworn to secrecy as a member of the intelligence committee. "The information we had in the intelligence committee was not the same information being given to the American people. I couldn't believe it," Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, said Wednesday when talking on the Senate floor about the run-up to the Iraq war in 2002. "I was angry about it. [But] frankly, I couldn't do much about it because, in the intelligence committee, we are sworn to secrecy. We can't walk outside the door and say the statement made yesterday by the White House is in direct contradiction to classified information that is being given to this Congress." Mr. Durbin's comments come after years of inquiries and debate about prewar intelligence, and as congressional leaders clash over Democrats' calls to pull out of Iraq. ...http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070427-124842-1706r.htm